{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-19T12:37:40","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T10:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2008-05-19T13:53:33","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T11:53:33","slug":"the-linux-mint-newsletter-issue-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Newsletter &#8211; Issue 46"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Bear with me this is\u00a0 the first edition in the blog and I have not found a preview option<\/p>\n<p>* News about Mint<\/p>\n<p>Beta 032 of Elyssa (main edition) has been out some time now. There seems to be few serious bugs, but of course there is always something found in a beta. There will probably be another beta, Clem has to fill in the details on that. I have found this beta very good except for problems with Firefox so I&#8217;m convinced the final version will be a smash hit<\/p>\n<p>Security flaw in the handling of SSL. This would effect Mint editions from Cassandra onwards. Please update your systems <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/usn\/usn-612-1\">http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\/usn\/usn-612-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The latest &#8220;Wallpaper of the week&#8221; <a TITLE=\"Wallpaper of teh week\" HREF=\"http:\/\/linuxmint.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=12474\">http:\/\/linuxmint.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=20&amp;t=12474<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* News about Linux<\/p>\n<p>Wine 1.0-rc1 was released on May 9\u00a0 <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/\">http:\/\/www.winehq.org\/ <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Warning for brute force SSH attacks <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/11518\">http:\/\/www.securityfocus.com\/news\/11518<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mark Shuttleworth talks about the Ubuntu release cycle and a possible collaboration with the other, large distributions on a coordinated major \/ minor release cycle <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/146\">http:\/\/www.markshuttleworth.com\/archives\/146<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fedora 9 has been released <a HREF=\"http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/\">http:\/\/fedoraproject.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mono has reached a milestone and releases Moonlight <a HREF=\"http:\/\/tirania.org\/blog\/archive\/2008\/May-13-1.html\">http:\/\/tirania.org\/blog\/archive\/2008\/May-13-1.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* News about IT<\/p>\n<p>HP buys EDS in for 13.9 billion dollars <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9942681-7.html\">http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-10784_3-9942681-7.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The battle between Microsoft and Yahoo goes on (and on) No link needed<\/p>\n<p>CBS buys Cnet <a HREF=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/390709\/cbs-buys-cnet-networks-for-18-billion\">http:\/\/valleywag.com\/390709\/cbs-buys-cnet-networks-for-18-billion<\/a><\/p>\n<p>New data highlights botnets <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.marshal.com\/trace\/traceitem.asp?article=637\">http:\/\/www.marshal.com\/trace\/traceitem.asp?article=637<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Paypal is vulnerable to XSS <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/16\/paypal_page_succumbs_to_xss\/\">http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/05\/16\/paypal_page_succumbs_to_xss\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Hardware news<\/p>\n<p>ASUS is to ship motherboards with a built in Linux so you don&#8217;t have to start the computer (fully) to do simple tasks<a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2008\/05\/prweb942944.htm\"> http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2008\/05\/prweb942944.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>* Editors comment<\/p>\n<p>As always &#8211; if you find something I&#8217;ve missed in the newsletter please tell me &#8211; now you can post a comment here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the Linux Mint Newsletter Bear with me this is\u00a0 the first edition in the blog and I have not found a preview option * News about Mint Beta 032 of Elyssa (main edition) has been out some time now. 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